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The airline declined to release specific figures but said it expected to complete 93 percent of its flights Friday. The Web site FlightStats.com said Northwest had canceled 118 flights as of 9 p.m. CDT Friday. ocean village cruises The flight-tracking service said Northwest had canceled 48 flights on Thursday.
"We are operating under the assumption that we will see increases in cancellations on Saturday and Sunday as well," Steenland wrote. "With our high summer ocean village cruises load factors, these cancellations will present an operating challenge as we use our best efforts to re-accommodate our passengers."
In a hotline message to pilots on Friday, the Northwest branch of the Air Line Pilots Association said that it didn't believe ocean village cruises there had been any improper use of sick time. However, the union said, if there had been an increase in sick time it was caused by the stress of increased ocean village cruises flying hours.
Under their current contract, Northwest pilots can fly up to 90 hours per month, up from 80 hours previously. The system counts only the time from when the plane is pushed back from the departure gate until it pulls up to the arrival gate, not any preflight ocean village cruises or postflight work.
The Eagan-based carrier, which canceled more than 1,000 flights in the last week of June because of pilot availability and other factors, announced earlier this month that it had thinned out its July schedule and cut its August ocean village cruises schedule ocean village cruises by 4 percent to try to prevent a repeat.
"We are confident that the measures we are taking will address and remedy our operational challenges," Steenland wrote Friday. "The unfortunate reality is that a problem such as this cannot be solved overnight. The steps we are taking - schedule reductions, new pilot training, changes in pilot bidding patterns and other remedial measures - take time to implement. We are implementing these changes as fast as possible."